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You’d suspect Edwards would want to give Hughes a bigger budget than usual for his first spend, just to cover the odd dud.

There’s a world where Matip & Thiago’s exits are already a given.

I think he fancies a contract elsewhere but doesn’t want to be see to be asking to go, in case it burns his bridges with the crowd.

Just a little joke, mate. Hope you’re ok xx

Out of Van Dijk, Alexander-Arnold (can’t be arsed with grown men calling strangers by their first name) and Salah, I think Edwards & Hughes will be open to selling one of them. The attack is reliant on him, again. That may or may not be something they fancy addressing and this summer may or may not be the time they want to do it - if so, it’s definitely risky. I’d personally prefer to offer all 3 of them deals, move Matip and Thiago on, review offers for Kelleher, then offer the new manager a budget for a couple of key additions to start his rebuild off - it doesn’t need the overhaul it may have once appeared to.

So they need someone to come in and invest £3bn to pay off Moshiri, buy the ground and clear debt? If I’ve red that right. That’s before they set a recruitment budget for new players, likely including replacing Dyche and staff, to get them up the table enough to justify the increase in ticket and box prices, which by all accounts with have upsides of up to 300%? You can’t see a private investor doing all that, even with the boom in Premier League investment, just to take a long haul punt on breaking even over say, 8/10 years, it may take to recoup and sell up? Unless it’s bent money being used to flush through the western system but they’ve already had moshiri and usmanov bounced for doing exactly that. Anyone with that type of cash will be far better advised to wait on the new Super League set up and pick a club in that. Administration looks their best bet so far, including if the 777 deal is using the ground as leverage and they ended up being tenants, under separate companies to the club, hilariously. That said, I’ve somehow got a horrible feeling they’ll end up somehow surviving it all, stay in the Prem and find a way back to mid table. I hope I’m wrong, my hatred for them as increased with age, rather than eased away.

They seemed to have dragged us into the debate for the behaviour of their own. https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/msg/1707935818.html Fancy that?

They’ll get points back and either another successful appeal or they’ll have the second charge squashed for the double jeopardy shout they’ve gone mad over. None of this looks good on the PL and with Masters making a bit of mess of the recent hearing and subsequent communications, they need to keep their brand as high as possible. It still leaves the shite in the bottom six again and facing a derby down the back stretch of a season where all they have again is try stop Liverpool winning up to 4 trophies. The delays over the takeover approval are another worry for them, they’re already £180m in debt to this lot, just for running costs, who have a bad track record as well, who pays for that stadium god knows - they certainly won’t be getting away with bumping the prices up to our levels - £7,8,900 without European football. They’re still lathered in shite and doesn’t it suit them?

Liverpool are having another good season, Everton are shite again. So let's make up more stories of heroic Blue bitterness to deflect and comfort each other again. Special mention to the one who acted out of hatred of tourist Reds, whilst visiting the city himself using a hotel and posts under the name Solent Blue, have a mind to log in as a Blue and use their own logic in reminding him that "football on Merseyside is none of your business, you wool prick." https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/msg/1707387521.html

“More scripted than WWE”. https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/msg/1706745440.html I love the pain LFC cause them.

Jim White is still discretely on the payroll after Moshiri came in and was told that footballing media and punditry was heavily biased in the favour of Liverpool, rooting back to Hansen and Lawrenson. He targeted two huge statements of intent to put EFC back on in the big time - buy the Liver Birds and partner with the biggest influence in football media. Moshiri got bounced, the Liver birds building is up for sale and White left Sky before being moved on to end up on TalkSPORT barking cringe whilst everyone’s in work.

I'd hate Liverpool to ever have to leave Anfield, the history there, the location, everything. The best football teams this club has produced were during the mid to late 80's when the city was damaged by unemployment and privatisation, leading to much reduced capacities, we've since won everything on sub-50K capacities - its all dick swinging, this size of our/your stadium nonsense, usually from lads online who've never tried to get away from a game handily on the numbers as they are.

Branthwaite was discussed the other day. Apparently there's already a market for him and the Shite are asking for up to £100m for him. I think he's excellent already and would be perfect for us, if Walton would do it - https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/thread/1704802080.html

Let me know why you deserve my seat. They’re utterly psychotic aren’t they? Narcissistic to a man, ironically the exact same projection they aim at us. They set this Premier League up as one of the driving 5 clubs. Convinced they’d wet their beaks as much as anyone, having won the league in the immediate aftermath of Hysel, not that they’d see the irony of that. Spanish clubs started to do their own TV deals, Serie A did a huge TV deal and they smartly followed suit - regardless of the privatisation and unemployment crisis in the City - ringfencing Liverpool’s remaining jewel, football, was a prudent choice and Everton expected to continue to flourish after an exciting decade. Only bar 1995’s smash and grab cup win, they’ve largely stunk, cheated the system they helped create in order to keep up, having ridden roughshod over banking and finance rules before FFP - the very same system brought in to help clubs being buried in such debt and murk - anyone remember the Vibrac loan saga and Bill’s failed NTL deal, the smoky Tesco land deal with his blue mate Sir Terry Leahy? I’m 46 and let me tell you, it goes on and on. They then rebranded the club for over a decade as a parochial institution, an insular place of worship whilst the nasty evil empire over the way, piled their brand high and sold it cheap to any and all daft enough to claim attachment - simply because they’d been pulled up by the banks and the auditors and told they couldn’t borrow anymore…at the exact time that the PL boomed and English football finally took over as Europe’s biggest league, causing themselves to fall further behind. The bright lights of the European game saw the gap opening so decided to do what Everton did in the early 90’s and cut off the rest of the field again, with the Super League - guess who whinged the most, simply because they didn’t deserve entry to the top table anymore? They don’t like being calmly and politely reminded that they fucking started all this in the first place. When they next come at you with the murderers and the inhalers and corruption schtick, look them in the eye and remind them, they suddenly turn into John Hurt in Alien. The last time it was steroids and now it’s corruption - funnily enough, it was Liverpool at the top of the table and doing well then, as well. Oh and as much as we do have an issue with ticket distribution and allocation, the amount of their lot who aren’t from Liverpool would amaze you - don’t ever take any of that from them either. There’s a glaring culprit for why they’ve sank so low for so long and deep down they know it - it’s themselves.

Regardless of them using LFC’s name to get the Madrid terms they want, he seems a horrible little cunt and I wouldn’t want him anywhere near the team environment, the club or the City. The whole thing would turn into an internet zoo.

They’ve referenced a Bournemouth player hitting form and one of them’s gone on a textbook psychotic rant about Liverpool. https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/msg/1704102338.html I monitor that hellhole and they recent did a thread on where are you from, you’d be surprised how many of them aren’t from Liverpool and amazingly enough, “efcman4ever” was one of them.

I was thinking this, only for real. Isn’t he 6’5? He looks like he could be perfect for us, for the long term and already plays like he’s been in the Prem for years. Matchgoing BS say they’d love to hold on to him but expect him to leave. Where’s he going? United to replace Varane. Would you stroll into that madhouse? It reeks of a boardroom war as well now. Could go either way, the rebuild. City have Dias, Stones, Gvardiol, Ake, Akanji - look at Phillips, absolutely no guarantees. Arsenal have built around Saliba and Gabriel. Does he want to back those up? Spurs? We can beat them to anyone and they still haven’t won anything of note for years. Also no guarantee they’ll offer regular CL, if at all. We need a left sided CB who can fit the ball-playing style, link the two generations and eventually lead the defence, if they’re hungry and focused enough. Van Dijk aging, Konate still has his injury issues and Quansah is still very young. I’d go £65m plus bonuses. 75% upfront; they’re skint and still need a signing or two themselves for their own good. Then when they knock it back through pure ego and belligerence, leak the bid, the banks & PL will be on the phone. It won’t happen but given we’re debating that toe-curling, hip hop “gangsta” wannabe gobshite Ivan Toney…

This and other resale formats are part of the reason they brought in additional measures after covid and the likes of Tony Barrett brought in to start the process of getting control back. When the new main went in, I moved across and asked for the front row of the upper, having been told its exceptional and has loads of room, you get the view out over towards the anglican, sunset over the Kop, great view and are in the middle of the atmosphere, can see the whole kop - I asked at the desk and she said oh that's one Irish guy who has the row as a block of 10 - we don't know how he manages it but he's changed what he does but he'll eventually lose them. An Irish reseller buys a block of 10 seats, resells them to different people each week depending on the market for that particular game, for god knows whatever profit, the box don't know exactly how. Its the profit he's making that the Club are after, not the drive to proportionate access or even fans who want to buy directly. Mental.

STH in the Main for years, having been on the list since the mid-90's and shared a seat in the Centenary for cash upfront at the start of a season before then and he's right. Yes, he could have worded it kinder but he's ultimately right. We do have a huge ticket distribution and acquisition issue and ironically its the Europeans that aren't the issue in terms of atmosphere - it seems to be the British nationals who seem to just sit hunched over, looking around, that very often dilute an organic sense of representing the City or getting behind the team. There's roughly 500,000 people in Liverpool and I'd say over 300,000 of them identify as Liverpudlians. How many would go if they could access an affordable ticket? How many are under 50 and would really help the atmosphere? Probably a lot and we've been very successful on a fraction of them, with a fraction of the atmosphere that a fuller representation would imagine and that's even before you factor in the suburbs and hinterlands whom have a reasonable right to connect with Liverpool - Warrington, Saints, Southport regions etc. I've always wondered why the wirral bother with LFC but since Tranmere were relegated from the now Championship decades ago, we've a loyal and strong following there and loads are sound, right into it. But at the same time, I've never got to a game earlier than five to kick off, don't always even buy a pint at half time anymore, let alone have I ever bought anything from the stores - so the Club would say how the fuck do you demand us to pay these fee's and salaries if you're contributing the "bare minimum" of £880 ST prices. This all started back in the mid-80's and early inception of the Prem - it melded perfectly with privatisation hitting the city, the unemployment rates going up and lots of locals would only go to decent game as early as the turn of the 80's - just look at some of the capacities through the golden years. There's a lot of moving parts to it and in an ideal world they'd allocate over 50, 60, 70% of tickets to L-postcode applicants and the OOT contingent who'd bother outside of that would be hard-boiled and bringing it, really knowing the score. Its a shame that not every city or town has a decent football club worth falling in love with but what is great about the club, comes from what was great about the City - our City. I don't know how much of this he's aware of or even cares about, or matters - but every now and then seeing the footage back and its some middle aged fella from Market Dryaton sat hunched doing a peace sign whilst the team are going for it in a big quarter final, just makes us look like soulless, laughing stock dickheads - its such a shame as it could be so much better. *Gammons off into the middle distance*

Loudly putting the boot into a stadium bigger than the entire full capacity of BDM without the SKD & Kop stands being refurbed; https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/msg/1702341985.html

Didn’t they invent the cash hungry, breakaway Premier League? After a spell of being one of the top dogs along with us and Utd, thinking they’d be wetting their beak as the cash rolled in, leaving the EFL to largely fend for itself. Yet they’ve somehow painted themselves out as some last bastion of moral integrity fighting back against the dastardly breakaway cash hungry (because they weren’t invited) ESL & dastardly PL (because it didn’t take off for them and they’ve largely been shite).

As if there’s ever even half of that much diversity in a real Goodison crowd. Why are they apes?!

They can’t help themselves, can they? Why don’t they just wait until it’s completed, paid for and makes notable changes to their profile, turnovers and performances? https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/msg/1700155853.html I know I quote that board a lot but for anyone wondering how hateful they are or younger reds who don’t understand the depth of feeling still underlying the Derby, read this plus the Chris Kirkland there’s on their from earlier today - vile abuse of a decent lad with a torrid mental health history. I’m 46 and still hate them as much as ever.

He looks like something that burst out of John Hurt’s chest in alien and they call us narcissists.

I once stepped on Dalglish's toe and other lies; https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/msg/1698781461.html